Similar schemes are in place around the world, including England where, under the ‘Give me Tap' campaign, consumers can take reusable bottles to several restaurants and have them refilled free of charge.
GiveMeTap lets consumers in the UK refill their water bottles for free at participating cafés. Beginning in Manchester, GiveMeTap has signed up numerous restaurants and cafés willing to supply free access to clean tap water; said providers can be located via PC or smartphone using GiveMeTap's mapping service. In order...
There are few things more satisfying than seeing a good idea spread, and that's just what we had occasion to witness recently. Just as TapIt lets New Yorkers refill their water bottles for free at participating cafés, so GiveMeTap does much the same for those in the UK.
Other students want to do good as well as be entrepreneurial, such as Edwin Broni-Mensah, a maths PhD student at Manchester University. He established GiveMeTap, an enterprise that has created a network of cafes that give free tap water to people who carry a reusable aluminium bottle, which students buy...
A Manchester-based start-up has found a way to help restaurants and cafés boost their client base at the same time as helping people on the go have access to fresh water for free in an environmentally friendly way.
12 April 2010 A University of Manchester Student has started a new business based on converting bottled water drinkers to tap water. Edwin Broni-Mensah, who is doing a PhD in Mathematics, devised a branded GiveMeTap bottled and persuaded 26 cafes and restaurants to offer users free refills.
Young Manchester Entrepreneur Edwin Broni-Mensah has been awarded £1,000 to help him develop his GiveMeTap business. The 24-year-old's enterprise enables people with his branded bottles to receive free tap water refills from cafes and restaurants in the city. The cash boost has been awarded under the Shell LiveWIRE Grand Ideas...
A YOUNG entrepreneur from Manchester University has been awarded £1,000 by Shell LiveWIRE's Grand Ideas programme to help him develop his business called GiveMeTap. Edwin Broni-Mensah, 24, has founded a business that enables users of a specially-branded GiveMeTap bottle to get free tap water refills from a network of cafés...
Edwin Broni-Mensah (www.GiveMeTap.co.uk) was awarded £1,000 for his business in a special Shell LiveWIRE elevator pitch competition that took place at the NACUE 'Business Not As Usual' conference at UCL London on 27th-28th March.
